Pediatric Surgery
Rady Children's Specialists of San Diego
CPMG/RCHN/RCSSD
Chicago Medical School
National Naval Medical Center - Bethesda, MD
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
Pediatric Surgery
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Dr. Ignacio has recently joined the Department of Surgery at UCSD School of Medicine as a staff pediatric surgeon. He is currently the Trauma Medical Director at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. He retired from the U.S. Navy with over 20 years of experience and has extensive accomplishments in graduate medical education, global surgery, military medicine and pediatric surgery.
During his leadership in the military, CAPT(Ret.) Ignacio served as the Program Director for General Surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD). Prior to this he served as the Associate Program Director, Division Chair of Pediatric Surgery and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences medical student clerkship director at NMCSD. He currently appointed as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns and Acute Care Surgery.
Board Certified in both General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery by the American Board of Surgery, Dr. Ignacio is a member of American College of Surgeons, American Pediatric Surgical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons, International Pediatric Endosurgery Group, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and Pacific Coast Surgical Association.
Captain Ignacio has a strong interest in humanitarian missions and was selected as Director of Surgical Services (MERCEX 2010), Advance Team Lead surgeon, Designated Institutional Officer and solo military pediatric surgeon in the Pacific Partnership 2012 humanitarian mission, which provided medical care to >100,000 patients in host nations and surgical care to over 800 patients in Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines.
Dr. Ignacio has been an outstanding leader and mentor among residents, interns and medical students. His impressive role as a surgical educator has been demonstrated by his recent teaching awards: Arnold P. Gold Foundation's Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award (2009), General Surgery Mentor of the Year Award (2010, 2012, and 2013), Allshouse-Jones Teaching Award (2010, 2013) and the Donald L. Sturtz Excellence in Teaching Award (2011) and the Naval Medical Center San Diego Master Clinician Award (2012).
Pediatric Extremity Vascular Trauma: It Matters Where It Is Treated
James M Prieto, Jan Michael Van Gent, Richard Y Calvo, Kyle D Checchi, Lyndsey E Wessels, Michael J Sise, C Beth Sise, Vishal Bansal, Matthew J Martin, Romeo C Ignacio
Safe Cholecystectomy Multi-Society Practice Guideline and State-Of-The-Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury During Cholecystectomy
L Michael Brunt, Daniel J Deziel, Dana A Telem, Steven M Strasberg, Rajesh Aggarwal, Horacio Asbun, Jaap Bonjer, Marian McDonald, Adnan Alseidi, Mike Ujiki, Taylor S Riall, Chet Hammill, Carol-Anne Moulton, Philip H Pucher, Rowan W Parks, Mohammed T Ansari, Saxon Connor, Rebecca C Dirks, Blaire Anderson, Maria S Altieri, Levan Tsamalaidze, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Prevention of Bile Duct Injury Consensus Work Group
Pediatric Extremity Vascular Trauma: It Matters Where It Is Treated
James M Prieto, Jan Michael Van Gent, Richard Y Calvo, Kyle D Checchi, Lyndsey E Wessels, Michael J Sise, C Beth Sise, Vishal Bansal, Matthew J Martin, Romeo C Ignacio
Towards Defining the Surgical Workforce for Children: A Geospatial Analysis in Brazil
Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Joao Vissoci, Nubia Rocha, Dan Poenaru, Mark Shrime, Emily R Smith, Henry E Rice, Global Initiative for Children?s Surgery
Practical Bioethics for the Humanitarian Surgeon: The Development, Implementation and Assessment of an Ethics Curriculum for Residents Participating in Humanitarian Missions
Victoria S McDonald, Romeo C Ignacio, Matthew A Kuettel, Lisa L Schlitzkus, Maura E Sullivan, Matthew D Tadlock
Patient-oriented Online Resources in Pediatric Surgery: Are We Failing the Readability Test?
James M Prieto, Cassidy West-Santos, Agnes S Montgomery, Utsav Patwardhan, David A Lazar, Hariharan Thangarajah, Stephen W Bickler, Eunice Y Huang, Timothy J Fairbanks, Romeo C Ignacio
Evaluating Surgical Outcomes in Pediatric Extremity Vascular Trauma
James M Prieto, Jan Michael Van Gent, Richard Y Calvo, Kyle D Checchi, Lyndsey E Wessels, C Beth Sise, Michael J Sise, Vishal Bansal, Romeo C Ignacio
Attrition Rate in Military General Surgery GME and Effect on Quality of Military Programs
Gabrielle Rolland, Eric P Ahnfeldt, Charles H Chestnut, Robert M Cromer, Byron J Faler, Andrew D Galusha, Romeo C Ignacio, Dwight C Kellicut, Daniel T Lammers, Timothy A Platz, Brandon W Propper, M Logan Rawlins, W Brian Sweeney, E Matthew Ritter
Premenarchal Patients Present Differently: A Twist on the Typical Patient Presenting With Ovarian Torsion
James M Prieto, Karen M Kling, Romeo C Ignacio, Stephen W Bickler, Timothy J Fairbanks, Nicholas C Saenz, Sneha I Nicholson, David A Lazar
Laparoscopic ventricular-cholecystic shunt
Romeo C. Ignacio Jr., Sophia M.V Schermerhorn, Alexander J. Marrotte, James M. Prieto
Trephination Versus Wide Excision for the Treatment of Pediatric Pilonidal Disease
James M Prieto, Kyle D Checchi, Karen M Kling, Romeo C Ignacio, Stephen W Bickler, Nicholas C Saenz, Timothy J Fairbanks, Sneha I Nicholson, David A Lazar
The History of Surgical Staplers: A Combination of Hungarian, Russian, and American Innovation
Alicia D Gaidry, Laurier Tremblay, Don Nakayama, Romeo C Ignacio Jr
Global Initiative for Children's Surgery: A Model of Global Collaboration to Advance the Surgical Care of Children
Global Initiative for Children?s Surgery
Optimal Resources for Children's Surgical Care: Executive Summary
Global Initiative for Children?s Surgery
Evaluating a Health Care Disparity Among Marine Recruits Treated for Acute Appendicitis
James M Prieto, Kimberly A Thompson, Lyndsey Wessels, Hope N Moore, Matthew P Hannon, Romeo C Ignacio
Operative Treatment for Intussusception: Should an Incidental Appendectomy Be Performed?
Andrew Wang, James M Prieto, Erin Ward, Stephen Bickler, Marion Henry, Karen Kling, Hariharan Thangarajah, Romeo Ignacio Jr
A Multimodal Approach Improves American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination Scores
Mary A Decoteau, Louis Rivera, Kristina Umal, Arden D Chan, Peter Soballe, Romeo C Ignacio
Abdominoscrotal Hydrocele: A Systematic Review
Alexander D Doudt, John E Kehoe, Romeo C Ignacio, Matthew S Christman